A deputy with the Department of Government Efficiency just exposed a ton of issues that are gumming up the works over at everyone’s favorite agency, the Internal Revenue Service, as his team continues to try and put it on the right track in the thick of tax season.
Special advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department Sam Corcos sat down for an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday saying that contractors, along with special interests, are sucking up 80 percent of the tax agency’s $3.5 billion yearly budget. When DOGE took a look into the matter, they discovered that a number of outside groups wound themselves around the processes of the IRS “like boa constrictors.”
“I have been brought in to look at the IRS’ modernization program, in particular, as well as the operations and maintenance budget. I really care a lot about this country, and this is a huge program that is currently 30 years behind schedule and it’s already $15 billion over budget,” Corcos said during his appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“He explained how decades ago Congress approved funding to modernize the IRS’s computer systems and prepare for 21st-century tax and accountant methods employed by most or all of the nation’s flagship banks. While those private companies were able to make the shift quickly, Corcos said the government has been mired in an operation that has been promising a five-year horizon since the project first took shape in 1991,” Trending Politics News said.
“We’re now 35 years into this program. If you ask them now, it’s five years away, and it’s been five years away since 1990. It was supposed to be delivered in 1996, and it’s still five years away,” he explained.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also told Ingraham, “one of the biggest surprises for me is just seeing how these entrenched interests, they just keep constricting themselves around the power, around the money, around the systems, and nobody cares.”
“Many of the employees are fantastic. It’s this consultant group. They’re like a boa constrictor. They’re like a python,” he continued. “They’ve constricted themselves around our government, and the costs are unbelievable. They’re being passed on to the American taxpayer.”
During the segment, the pair also shutdown claims that DOGE was willy-nilly ripping apart big chunks of the federal government while simultaneously putting the privacy and personal information of American citizens at risk. Bessent shrugs off those criticisms, turning the direction of the conversation to how badly broken the tax collection processes are in the U.S.
“The entrenched interests, the consultants, the Democrats, mainstream media, they just want to blow this project out of the water,” Bessent said to the Fox News host. “This is the opposite of government efficiency, not elimination, not extinction. Sam and his crew are making it more efficient to work for the American people. So what’s wrong with it working better, cheaper, faster, and with more privacy?”
Bessent then revealed what his three priorities for the IRS are: “collections, privacy, and customer service,” and he argued, “None of those are being well served.”
“We want people to feel satisfied that they are getting the service they deserve, that they’re paying their fair share and not more, not less. And that it’s done quickly, smartly and privately,” he added.
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